Corset



MQP. BRAY.

(No Model.)

CORSET.

Patented Dec v No. 289,969.

UNITED STATES YPATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS P. BRAY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,969, dated December 11, 1883.-

Application filed May 31, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, itmay concern:

Be it known that I, MoEEIs I. BRAY, of

v New Haven, in the county of New Haven and the wearer.

State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and. the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in I Figure l, a rear View; Fig. 2, a transverse section on the line .rx of Fig. 1.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets, with special reference to the back or lacing sections.

Various devices in corsets have been made whereby a certain amount of elasticity may be given to the back. In some cases an elastic strip has been introduced at the center up and down the back, or elastic straps have connected the two parts at the back. In other cases `an elastic lacing has been employed. In all these cases the working ofthe two partsthat is, expanding by movement of the body and then permitted to contract--serves to gather the under-garments between the two edges at the back, to the great discomfort of it consists in connecting the two sections byy elastic straps, and permanently combining therewith an underlying ilap stitched to the elastic straps midway betweenthe two sections, and so that the underlying flap will rest against the person, leaving thetwo parts free to work toward and' from each other upon thevsaid flap, as more fully hereinafter described.

each provided with lacing-holes a, in the usual /mannen These two sections are connected by elastic straps b, preferably at the top, bottom, and center. Upon the inside a flap, C, is arranged vertically, and considerably wider than 5o the space between the two sections in their contracted condition, and so as to underlie the said two sections. At the vertical center the elastic strips are stitched or connected to the seen in broken lines, Fig. 2. This prevents 6o the edges of the two sections from gathering or acting upon the under-garments, and ,overcomes the diiiiculty hereinbefore referred to.

The underlying tlap C should be provided with yvertical stays, as indicated in Fig. 2, to

retain it in its proper shape. l

While my invention is designed with special reference to the back section, it will be understood that the same construction may be ap- I claim- The herein-described improvement in corsets, consisting in the sections A B, their edges united by elastic connections, combined with the underlying flap C, permanently united Y to said elastic connections midway between the two sections, and so as to underlie the said two sections and permit them to work thereon, substantially as described. MORRIS l?. BRAY. Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE,

LILI-.IAN D. KELsEY.

A represents one section, and B the other, 45

underlying iap, as at d. The lacings should 5 5 plied to any other point where the lacing is 7o desirablej 

